Overview
- Deepens the knowledge in the field of industry and business clusters
- Presents practical guides on how to measure the performance of companies in clusters
- Suggests cluster policies for positive microeconomic and macroeconomic impacts
Part of the book series: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STAIS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Cluster policy
- Cluster formation
- Business performance
- Innovation behavior
- Industrial districts
- Family business
- Data Envelopment Analysis
- Competitiveness of companies
- Policy management
- Foreign investment
- Innovation partnership
- Financial performance
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Corporate inter-organizational behavior
- Textile industry
- Glass industry
- Jewel industry
- Organized business clusters
About this book
In the third part, an additional survey and case studies are presented, to examine the specifics of family businesses in selected industrial districts of the textile, glass, and jewelry industries. A broader overview of the development of dominant industries in the selected districts is provided, for an easier understanding of the relationships of competition among companiesand locations in the business clusters. The book evaluates implications for microeconomic and macroeconomic policies and provides proposals for corporate inter-organizational behavior.
This volume addresses scholars and researchers of economics, business, and management, as well as policy-makers and practitioners interested in a better understanding of innovation and performance drivers of business clusters.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Petra Rydvalova is an associate professor in Business Economics and Management at the Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic. Her research focuses on business clusters, outsourcing, and the transfer of R&D results through a spin-off method.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Innovation and Performance Drivers of Business Clusters
Book Subtitle: An Empirical Study
Editors: Miroslav Zizka, Petra Rydvalova
Series Title: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79907-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79906-9Published: 01 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79909-0Published: 02 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79907-6Published: 31 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2570-1509
Series E-ISSN: 2570-1517
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 232
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Growth, Business and Management, general, Industrial Organization, Regional/Spatial Science, Economic Geography